History Manga / LoveStage

* LoveMartyr: Shougo. [[spoiler: He falls in love with Rei, despite the fact that Rei is in love with his father, and sticks with Rei because he believes he can make Rei fall in love with him. Rei however is not very willing to let go of his feelings for Seiya, and despite feeling horrible about using Shougo as a ReplacementGoldfish continues to do so and at times even manipulates Shougo to do his bidding for no other reason than to make Seiya happy. Even when Rei genuinely begins to fall in love with Shougo, he doesn't acknowledge these feelings until he's almost raped by a stalker. Shougo just accepts it as is because he really loves Rei and wants Rei to be happy.]]

''Love Stage!!'' is a BoysLove manga created by Zaou Taishi and Eiki Eiki, running from 2010 to 2016 in ''Asuka CIEL'' magazine. It received a 10 episode anime adaptation as part of the Summer2014Anime lineup.

* BetaCouple: Shougo and Rei in the main story of Love Stage; they are the main couple in Back Stage and few other side stories in the Love Stage manga.

* BlatantLies: When Izumi spends the night at Ryouma's, he tells Rei that he is staying over a friend's house, and Rei complains to himself about how obvious the lie was.

** Shougo becomes jealous when Rei's glasses break and he gets fawned over. Shougo forces Rei to wear his sunglasses until they can get him a new pair.

* GenkiGirl: Majority of Nagisa's scenes consist of her getting excited over various things.
* TheGlomp: Izumi does this in Episode 10 to Ryouma, and in the anime's opening.

* HeroicBSOD: Izumi, after trying to enter his manga into a contest and being told he has no talent. Ryouma helped him by giving the manuscript to Izumi's favorite author, and begging him to give Izumi's work constructive criticism. Later on, Ryouma has his own moment, when [[spoiler: Izumi floors him with his superior acting ability, proving himself a complete natural, in his very first acting gig, and Ryouma is affected so badly that he is unable to focus, forcing Director Kisaragi to attempt his hypnotism trick on Ryouma, to calm his nerves. [[FromBadToWorse Unfortunately, the hypnotism proves ''too'' effective,]] [[LaserGuidedAmnesia as Ryouma ends up forgetting]] not about his worries but the ''source'' of his worries: Izumi, even to the point that the hypnotism undoes their past progress, as Ryouma cannot even remember Izumi from when they were kids--which is a huge deal, considering the effects that first encounter had on Ryouma for the last 10 years.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:In the most recent chapters, Ryouma has forgot his memories of Izumi due to being hypnotized by Jin to forget about things troubling him when he feels inferior to Izumi's natural acting talent.]]

** Izumi locking himself in his room when he's upset about something and Rei kicking in the door.

* {{Seme}}: Shougo and Ryouma. Izumi tried being seme in Chapter 16 after being convinced by Rei to "turn the tables" on Ryouma after Izumi tells Ryouma that he was hurt pretty bad after their first time; when it got to the point of actually having sex for the second time, Ryouma took his place as seme. [[spoiler: In the most recent chapter, Izumi decides the best way to win Ryouma back after him getting hypnotized and losing his memories of Izumi, is to study all types of semes and and have sex with Ryouma with Izumi as the seme; this finally happens at the end of the manga, though Ryouma hardly feels a thing!]]
* SexyDiscretionShot: The anime. When things are getting a little too-heated-for-television in the bedroom, we get a nice tour of Ryouma's kitchen cabinets instead.

** Happens again during the debut conference. Izumi, while crossdressing, reveals his gender ''in front a crowd''. Needless to say, the press was in complete shock.

* WrongGenreSavvy: For an otaku, Izumi can be pretty... idealistic when it comes to attempting the seme role in his and Ryouma's relationship. His BL research has him listing all known seme types, but he insists on being the super seme--which, as Rei later points out, is no where near possible for Izumi through physical requirements alone (though Izumi begs that a guy can dream). Izumi might have better luck as the shota seme.
* YaoiFangirls: Shougo's and Ryouma's fan girls; so much that [[spoiler: there's actually in-universe doujinshis pairing them together]]

* {{Bishonen}}: Both the leads are very pretty, but Izumi [[DudeLooksLikeALady more so]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** Rei's hair color is green.
** In the anime, Ryouma's hair is dark blue.

* MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities: Invoked. The protagonist Izumi, an otaku from a prominent family of actors and music talents, is [[ShowWithinAShow cast in a TV Drama]] as the main character, a rich young master with three personalities, one of which is a girl. This difficult role shows off Izumi's prodigious but heretofore unseen acting abilities, causing feelings of inadequacy in his senior co-star and [[YaoiGuys boyfriend]], Ryouma.

* {{Megane}}: Izumi, sometimes, and Rei; while Izumi genuinely needs glasses due to poor vision (and eventually gets contacts), Rei's glasses are just for show, as without them, everyone around him gets DistractedByTheSexy and he finds it troublesome.

* {{Glomp}}: Izumi does this in Episode 10 to Ryouma, and in the anime's opening.

* RealityEnsues: Izumi asks if having sex with a man will hurt (he tries to research it in BL manga, but they're all inconsistent/unrealistic), and Rei tells him that it would depend on the age, size, and knowledge/experience of his partner. Izumi is scared to do it again after TheirFirstTime since it hurt too much. Their second time is better since Ryouma took the time to research how to do it right online.

* SingleTargetSexuality: Ryouma says as much [[http://mangafox.me/manga/love_stage/v01/c005/12.html here]]. Shougo has been in love with Rei ever since he met him in the Back Stage novels.

* NotSoDifferent: An amusing example. Both Ryouma and Izumi have situations where they regret saying or doing something to the other and roll around in their bed yelling about it being embarrassing.

* ShockingSwerve: InUniverse, in the drama Izumi stars in, it's revealed that there is a fourth personality who killed the butler's parents.

''Love Stage'' is a BoysLove manga created by Zaou Taishi and Eiki Eiki that is being currently serialized in Asuka Ciel magazine. It received a 10 episode anime adaptation as part of the Summer 2014 anime lineup.

''Love Stage'' also has a side story by the name of ''Back Stage'', which is a novel about Izumi's older brother Shougo and Sena's Production manager Sagara Rei.